diff --git a/src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog b/src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog
index 793fb859b1..9f084d61a0 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-09-16  John Levon  <levon@movementarian.org>
+
+	* QDelimiterDialog.C: fix empty delimiter
+ 
 2002-09-15  John Levon  <levon@movementarian.org>
 
 	* Makefile.dialogs:
diff --git a/src/frontends/qt2/QDelimiterDialog.C b/src/frontends/qt2/QDelimiterDialog.C
index 5fdf4d9611..1536569165 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt2/QDelimiterDialog.C
+++ b/src/frontends/qt2/QDelimiterDialog.C
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ namespace {
 		if (str == "backslash")
 			return "\\";
 		if (str == "empty")
-			return "";
+			return ".";
 		return str;
 	}
 }